“She was a disgrace to us. She could not uphold our honour and deserved to die. We gave her many chances and thought marrying her would solve our problem, but she would not listen. A rebel, she would threaten suicide. We fixed her wedding and she was planning to elope and we would have been doomed in our community forever. Seeing no other way out, I had to do this to save my family's honour as the eldest son,” said Haseen. Even in the video, Haseen can be heard screaming: “To save our father's honour, what wouldn't one do? Our father would have died. She had run away from home three times.” People are standing around, watching the spectacle. No one steps forward to stop the accused. Some children are also standing nearby, watching the accused strangle his sister.
The 17-year-old deceased girl Amreesha was from Nagla Shekhu village and had reportedly fallen in love with a Hindu boy. The boy, named Mohit, would visit her village often to meet his sister who lived there. That's when they fell in love. The family was against her inter-religious union and was planning to marry her off. She had reportedly eloped three times with him and dragged back and was brutally murdered by her elder brother when he found out she was planning to flee the fourth time. Interestingly, it were the local police who brought the girl back the third time she fled as she was a minor and the family had alleged abduction, though no formal complaint against the boy was ever filed. The girl was resolute about marrying her boyfriend, despite her family's efforts to dissuade her. The family fixed her wedding and she planned to elope.
According to the police, Haseen claimed he gave her all chances to survive by reasoning with her but refusing to do so she ran out of the house, but her brother chased her down and beat her on the road. He then strangled her at the crime scene, in the presence of minor onlookers.
While the murder has shocked the entire nation, the community in the village is reportedly lauding Haseen and his father Shehzad Ali for setting an example for all girls and boys in the town. The police have stepped up security in the village.
